Meet the fixer: This professional trains people for solar jobs.

Grist
By Grist staffMay 19, 2017, 6:00 am68 pts
The solar industry is doing better than ever, creating well-paying jobs across the country — but those jobs aren’t evenly distributed. Oakland-based nonprofit GRID alternatives offers job training for low-income communities and people of color to help make that cleantech boom more accessible. Erika Symmonds…

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